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VOLUME XLVI UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, SATURDAY, OCT. 14, 1944 NUMBER j7 “Undiscovered Voice" Returns After living just off New York’s blazing Broadway for three months, singing to 20 million people every Sunday, rehearsing on the stage at Carnegie hall, and chatting with Thomas E. Dewey in his own spacious offices, Marie Rogndahl has re turned to Oregon. She has eaten ravioli, minestrone and anipasto in Joe Ra mano s Italian restauran, Russian borscht in the Russian Tea room, and on her 21st birthday, Septem ber 5, Marie dined at the subter ranean French restaurant Voisin. That night the city had a black out and Marie recounts the har rowing dash to find a cab and to reach home before the lights went out. In summing up New York, the honey-haired coloraturo said she like the city because of its many opportunities in radio, opera, the theater, and other arts. As for en tertainment, she suggested, “I think you could live in New York for a year and go to a different place every night.” Three weeks before coming home to Oregon, Marie trouped with 10 other members of the ‘‘Hour of Charm” through Buffalo, N.Y., Fort Wayne, Indiana; Detroit. Michigan; Toronto and Montreal, Qanada; playing one-night stands. In Detroit they did four and five shows a day, “which was a grind,” and had only 40 minutes between shows to relax and get something to eat. Enthusiastically greeting each of her friends who came into the li brary, the singer exclaimed to one of them, a student of nursing, that if it weren’t for music, joining the nurses corps and going overseas would be the “first thing she would do.” In planning for the future, the bright-eyed singer intends to grad uate from college by June, learn ing the scores to perhaps three operas under Professor Sigurd Nilssen, but she has nothing defi nitely planned and no contracts signed. One disconcerting thing still oc curs. Whenever Marie is asked for her autograph she gets embar rassed. Marie has not changed. "Hello” Theme Chosen for First Dance An all-campus dance, a delayed substitute for the traditional “Hello" dance, is planned for Sat urday night, October 21 in Ger linger hall from 9 until 12. Skull and Dagger and Kwama, sopho more men’s and women's honor aries, are sponsors of the affair, and their respective presidents, Nick Weddle and Roseann Leckie, are in charge. Music will be by George Carey’s campus orchestra, and “Hello" will be the theme of decorations. An nounced admission is $1.20, includ ing tax. During the dance, Skull and Dag ger will tap five new members. To help both men and women find dates for the dance, a date committee of Jean Watson, Bar bara Pearson, Russ Monahan, and Bob Bissett has been appointed. Anyone desiring such service should call one of the committee members. Other committees working on the affair are: decorations: Nadyne Neet, Beatrice King, Leon Wil liams, Nick Weddle, Dorothy Ras mussen, Marjorie Cowlin, Jocelyn Fancher, and Anne Scripter; pa trons and patronesses, Elsie Ball and Marjory Allingham; pub licity, Jean Lawrence and Marilyn Sage; and tickets, Florence Hint zen, Patricia Metcalf, Martha Thorsland, Beverly Carroll, Mari lyn Sage, Milton Sparks, Lou Gel los, and Margery Skordahl. Raoul Jobin, Met Tenor, To Give Series Concert Campus music lovers are due for a treat when Raoul Jobin, famous tenor of the Metropolitan Opera company, makes his appearance as the first star of the present series October 26. Mr. Jobin was born in Quebec, Canada. He made -his first operatic debut in France, where he appeared for the Paris Opera company as Tybalt in the opera “Romeo and Juliet.” Immediately after, he left on a fifteen-month opera tour of Eu rope, during which he made 111 appearances. From 1934 until the outbreak of "the present war, he was leading tenor of the Grand Opera Comique of Paris, in addi tion to continuing his tours. His debut in the western hemi sphere was made at the Teatro Municipal in Die de Janiero. Later he came to the United States and appeared for the Metropolitan Opera company in 1940 opposite Qraee Moore in the opera “Manop.” Ms success was overwhelming and he has been one of the foremost tenors of the country ever since. He has played in all the large opera companies of the continent, as well as being a guest soloist with the principal symphonies. Mr. Jobin has also been warmly received over the airlanes, appear ing on many outstanding programs. Among the more recent are the “Celanese Hour,” and Sherwin and Williams “World of Song.” Students will be able to hear a preview of the great star on Octo ber 15 when he will appear on the Standard Hour. He is scheduled to sing several excerpts from the op era, “Faust.” The campus performance will be at McArthur court and will begin promptly at 8:15. Admission is limited to ASUO card holders and members of the Eugene Civic Mu sic association. Bunion Race Swings Into Second Half While floodlights played across the gridiron of the high school football game and Erskine Hawkins swung out at the armory, boy met girl in the 11 houses which sponsored the Bunion Derby last night. At*several of the houses the ration was three men to each woman, and from the coed viewpoint the Derby was a success. The continuation of the Derby this afternoon from 12:30 to 1, at the remaining houses will be equally successful if the men follow the schedule planned by Dennis Johnson and Betty Butler, co chairmen. The houses open today are: Kappa Alpha Theta, Alpha Gamma Delta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Alpha Chi Omega, Pi Beta Phi, Delta Delta Delta, University house, Hendricks hall, and Susan Campbell hall. The men's groups will begin at the specified houses as follows: Sigma Nu at Kappa Alpha Theta; Kappa Sigma at Alpha Gamma Delta; Phi Gamma Beta at Kappa Kappa Gamma; BINFSAOMUO at Alpha Chi Omega; Campbell co-op at Pi Beta Phi; and unaffil iated men at Delta Delta Delta. The men will stay 15 minutes at each house. Then they will follow the schedule in the order named (see paragraph four) until each house has been visited once. Ohioan Advocates National Housekeeping Fall Program Slamming bureaucracy as an un-American term, Gov. John W. Bricker, Republican vice-presidential candidate, told listen ers at McArthur court Thursday: “We need a governmental reorganization at Washington. It will have to be done in a Republican administration. Turn Dewey loose on that job W. B. Merriam Will Conduct First Service Professor Willis B. Merriam will be the featured speaker at the first Vesper choir service tomorrow ev ening- in the music auditorium. The program will last from 5 to 5:30. Helen Luvaas will direct the choir, and Barbara Tripp is featured or ganist. The Vesper choir services are presented once a month throughout the school year. At each service, a short meditation will be given by a religious authority. These services are sponsored by the Student Religious council, whose officers act as ushers. Stu dents are urged to attend, as the services are not long and consist primarily of music. The program for tomorrow in cludes: Organ prelude, “Allegro” from Sonata in C Minor by Borowski; Vesper choir, “Bless This House” by Brahe; organ meditation, “Herz lich Thut Mich Verlangen,” by Bach; Vesper choir, “Adoramus Tt,” by Mozart; organ postlude, “Little Fugue in G Minor” by Bach. The date of the second service will be announced in the Emerald. Sahlstrom Names Aides Committee heads of the Young Democrats club were named Tues day by Chairman Elmer Sahlstrom. Arrangements for candidates and other prominent Democrats to address the students will be made by the guest speakers committee of which Betty Stuart, senior in liberal arts, is chairman. Maryann Howard, sophomore in journalism, heads the campaign (Please turn to page four) next November.” Answered by applause from the audience which crowded the floor of the court, Bricker continued, "The Republican party is the lib eral party in this country. The New Deal is reactionary.” A lot of shady deals in Wash ington now need to be cleaned up, and Dewey can do it, asserted the tall Ohioan. "Bureaucrat is not an appealing name to American. It is related to autocracy in our minds. It con notes untied power of government. Many well-meaning persons in the government employ have become involved in the bureaucratic sys tem, and very often that system compels them to do things on the odd side,” Bricker said, and related several instances illustrating mis use of federal power invested in some of the “pestiferous” bureaus. "Not only are the three million and more bureaucrats stuffed into corners and hallways to the point of suffocation, but the bureaus themselves are piled one on the other until they have spread into cities all over the country, the can didate emphasized. Webb To Attend Chicago Meeting Carl Webb, assistant professor of journalism, will leave Saturday for Chicago where he will attend a series of annual meetings of na tional newspaper groups. He will be present at the meetings, both as assistant professor of journalism on the campus, and as manager of the Oregon Newspaper Publishers’ association. The meeting will include the In land Daily Press association, the Newspaper Managers association, the National Editorial association, the Newspaper Advisory council, and the Newspaper Advertising Service. At the meeting of the Newspaper Managers associations, Mr. Webb will give a speech on present-day advertising rates. (Please turn to page four) Talent Parade Features Men At Frosh Party A wholly masculine talent p.i fficle, featuring- Bob Moran, talent ed carrot-topped freshman, as sink ing master of ceremonies, will en tertain frosh women tonight at 7 hi Gerlinger at fee first party of too year exclusively for freshman girls. Included in the host of talent will be Evans Cantrell, Oregon's own swoon crooner, Cliff Mallicot, and Jack Howell, boogie-woogie pianists, and Bob Smith, who w U lead a group of fraternity men a the singing of Oregon and fratern ity songs. Special requests for fra* ternity songs will be granted. The party will be informal. Guests will sit on the floor and a re requested to enter the gym via the sun porch door. To accommodate those women who have dates later that night the party will last only an hour. Kwama, Sophomore women’s honorary which is sponsoring the affair, is considering the possibility ot supporting a series of future programs and forums designed to aid freshman girls. The party to night will be the first in that series. Four Houses Hold Mixers Wednesday night was by no means dead for several of the worn ens living- organizations. "We didn t know there were so many n.en on the campus,” one coed said. Three sororities — Kappa Alpha Theta, Delta Delta Delta, and Del ta Gamma—opened their doors fox dancing to campus men, fellov/n from houses, those living out, and pre-meds. The Tri Delts entertain.d from 7 to 8; the others danced front 9 to 10:30. Smooth cooperation was shown between Campbell club, men's co (Please turn to page Jour) Vacancy Occurs In Co-op Board Appointment of someone to tal o the place of Pauline Gordon, who did not return this year, on the Co-op governing board was dis cussed at a meeting of the board Wednesday afternoon. No definite appointment has been made. Another subject of interest was the question of where the Co-op should be situated when the Stu dent Union building is completed. Two possibilities are including it A the Student Union building a; id leaving it where it is. The cash rebate of last year, the low stock of supply, difficulties ir. getting stock, and the fact that mailing service is again open at tho Co-op were also discussed. Mr. Mc Clain mentioned that he has only one full-time worker at present, and would like to have two or more boys work for him full time. In terested persons may see him in the Co-op during the day. Ballot Time Lament The seniors are the ones that vote* The juniors are the boasters, The sophomores get aboard t.bo boat, But freshmen make the posters, —D.F.3,